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Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction. -- Joyce Meyer
Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment. -- Syesha Mercado
Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them. -- Martin Amis
Because of Jesus Christ, peace can replace guilt. Healthy relationships can be restored. Addictions can be overcome. -- M. Russell Ballard
A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings. -- David Emerald Womeldorff
Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind. -- Margaret Cousins
There came a time in everyone's life when they realized that in spite of how hard they'd been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable. -- J.R. Ward
Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish. -- William Gibson
Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions. -- Lara Flynn Boyle
My three addictions of choice are food, love and work. -- Alanis Morissette
One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions. -- Lorna Luft
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society. -- Keith Miller
I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example. -- Nolan Bushnell
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature. -- Russell Smith
Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. -- Caitlin Moran
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. -- Peter Singer
I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit. -- Judith Wright
It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. -- Ellen Burstyn
There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it's done working for me. -- Andy Dick
We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions. -- Anne Wilson Schaef
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Aleta St. James is an internationally renowned energy healer, life coach, best selling author, and more. Aleta does private sessions to release old resistance and shift out of anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, addictions, infertility, and insecurity at a cellular level. -- Jenna Morasca
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. -- Keith Miller
Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it. -- Richie Sambora
We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project. -- Judith Wright
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change. -- Nalini Nadkarni
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were. -- Lemon Andersen
I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious. -- Alice Waters
Shame is the root of all addictions. -- John Bradshaw
Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos -- John Warren Kindt
She had her addictions and one of them was reading. -- Jeannette Walls
There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee. -- Sarah Dessen
The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime -- John Warren Kindt
Forgetting someone is like getting over a hundred addictions everyday. -- Taylor Swift
My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches. -- Frank Iero
Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy. -- Julia Cameron
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. -- Joseph Addison
Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture. -- Martin Amis
When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens -- John Warren Kindt
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. -- Robert Breault
Many addictions can be far more dangerous than addiction to drugs. The addiction to power ... -- M. Scott Peck
Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong? -- Froma Harrop
When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference: -- Ken Keyes Jr.
Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams. -- Robert J. Shiller
It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else -- Christian Louboutin
When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal. -- Pema Chodron
Out of all the addictions in the world, Attention is slowly but surely becoming one of the most dangerous. -- Saahil Prem
All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment. -- Barbara de Angelis
Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after. -- John Eldredge
A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it. -- Francis Chan
We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel. -- Francis Chan
Now you know how I justify my addictionsâ??if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it. -- Karen Marie Moning
You can't wear revealing clothes because of the sex addicts. Instead, you wear big bras, big pants and baggy tops. You're taught to respect others' addictions. -- Kerry Katona
I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented. -- Henry Rollins
We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much. -- Izzy Stradlin
Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free! -- Dan Millman
I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say and do (including my emotion backed addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow of information that is constantly flooding in through all of your sensory inputs. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom. -- Margaret Atwood
The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization. -- Richard Heinberg
We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology. -- David Berman
But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord. -- Joel Osteen
For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them. -- Rob Roberge
I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
Start announcing freedom from anything that's holding you back. Freedom from addictions, freedom from loneliness, freedom from lack, freedom from struggle. You are prophesying your future. Your words are setting the direction for your life. -- Joel Osteen
Complications take many forms, including an imbalanced lifestyle, toxic relationships, hidden emotional debts, resistance, indecision, addictions, and negative conditioned beliefs. When our life is overly complicated, we're weighed down by superfluous things at every level. -- Deepak Chopra

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